In brief: Ant & Dec to return Tate’s award

TV presenting duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly say they will hand back their 2005 'people's choice' British Comedy Award after an ITV investigation found that comedian Catherine Tate (pictured) should have won a premium rate phone vote for the prize; it is understood the vote was rigged to placate singer Robbie Williams who agreed to attend the event and present a prize only if the recipients were Ant and Dec... Gordon Ramsay, the well known c***, has leapt on the already overcrowded health and environmental bandwagon - think Jamie Oliver's school dinners and Hugh Fearnley Whittenstall's factory-farmed chickens - by attacking restaurants that serve fruit and vegetables that are out of season. Transgressors, says the foul-mouthed cook, should be prosecuted and fined. Some might say it's a shame there are no fines for publicity-seeking chefs... Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has admitted taking hundreds of thousands of pounds over an eight year period to finance various political campaigns, right up to his election as Israeli leader in 1996. He denies any wrongdoing and refuses to resign, however he says that if the country's attorney general decides to prosecute, he will quit... Writers Andrew Davies and Jeremy Brock are making some dramatic changes in their big-screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisted; with the Waugh family's approval, they have relocated one of the three main characters, Julia Flyte (portrayed by Diana Quick in the famous 1981 TV series, and played by Hayley Atwell in the new film) to Venice in order to conveniently condense the storyline... Lord of the Rings actress Liv Tyler is separating from her British guitarist husband Royston Langdon after five years of marriage; Tyler, who will next be seen in The Incredible Hulk, has a three-year-old son with Langdon... Madonna is to kick off a European and North American tour, 'Sticky & Sweet', in Wales this summer, performing at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on August 23... Uma Thurman looks set to be heading back to court again, with French cosmetics giant Lancome suing the Kill Bill actress over her demands for $1m for what she claims was unauthorised use of her name and face on Canadian billboards and Asian websites after her contract expired; earlier this week an obsessed fan, Jack Jordan, was convicted of stalking and harassing Thurman...